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IIRC there was in the Pentagon a call to all staff members to send in proposals for the name of the new fighter. Someone sent in "Sabre" and it was choosen.

I was bored with tiling the vietnamese chinese borderland. Because of that i made an attempt to create the island of Alderney for the BoB terrain. It are still a jpg tiles, no water effect so far. That will come later.

M39 or ADEN or DEFA guns all base on a german design IIRC MG 213. The caliber 20 mm was good enough against fighters, but to weak against bombers. German experiences of WW2 showed, that it was neccessary to hit a B-17 or B-24 with 30 to 50 hits of 20 mm rounds, but only 3 or 4 hits of 30 mm round to kill such a bomber.

The original Sabre had not had enough firepower. The 12.7 mm machineguns were a better joke. The majority of so called "kills" came from the rule, that 7 bullit hits must be shown on guncamera. But the MiG-15 could withstand 7 bullit hits easily. Very often MiG's came home with 50 or even 100 bullit holes in the body and nothing happend. Even american pilots admit, that the 12,7 mm machineguns would have been useless against a bomber like the IL-28. The best solution for the ultimate Sabre would have been the instalation of 2 british ADEN guns or 2 german MK 103 guns. This guns had enough punch to kill anything.

F-31. Shadow games.

If you mean combat ships of carrier groups, then it is a game issue. You cant do anything.

The game engine cant handle ski jump ramps. Thatswhy you must decide as modder wheter to let the plane run trough the ramp or to let jump the plane over the ramp. Neither way is good. But so it is.

Great! Cool bird. I love it.

What do you expact after 16 years of henhouse?! We have now the third female secretary of defence in row! Genderconform language is more important than combat readiness, enough fuel and ammo or even combat boots! When german troops were sent out to UN-missions they had to borrow their equipment from other units, which stayed at home, because they had not had enough combat ready equipment themself! At the moment the only nation, we could harm with our overwhelming military force is the superpower of Luxemburg.

Its a picture from this year. Its an active EuFi of the Luftwaffe. BTW. The Luftwaffe has enough missiles to fully arm 4 Eurofighters. No its not a joke. Only missiles for 4 planes. Of 12 submarines Type 212 only 1 is combat ready. Of 48 Tiger UHT helicopters 9 are ready for combat. In this light you may understand why Germany is no fan of military advantures in the Ukraine. After 5 minutes of combat we could throw only with cotton balls. Sorry guys, you are on your own.

Here is the reason, why my new terrain projects have such a slow progress: Release date End of April 2022

To question 1, the answer is no. Gunners of planes and helicopters never fire on ground targets with guns. Unfortunatly.

Long time ago we already had it. Was called Reichsflugscheibe. Was not the hit.

Did you know that we are only supposed to post something here on Fridays? So it is written in the rules. mandatory screenshot:

I hate Corona.

If you mean, wheter i will make the map to a naval map, so that modern chinese ships and carriers could appear, then the answer is Yes.

I started writing during my studies at the University. There we had to write longer texts and i found out, that i liked it. During this time i visited the ILA airshow in Berlin and i came in contact with some exhibitors. I asked them questions over questions and someone asked back, wheter i'm a journalist. I denied. But an idea was born. I wrote a short article about the modernisation of the MiG-23 and sent it to an Air Magazin. Then i forgot the whole thing. But some weeks later the Air Magazing answered and published my article. Others followed. Then, some years later the german publishing house Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart started with a seria of small books called "Typenkompass". I liked this small dictionaries and so i wrote one about the combat aircrafts of the east german air force. Then i sent it to Stuttgart, with no much hope. But i was lucky, the lector who was responsible for aviation, read an article of me in the Air Magazin Fliegerrevue, when he got my proposal for a manuscript. So my name was not new for him and he saw my style to write. And he liked what he saw. The publishing house was interessted in this book and it was printed and published. Some books later the lector asked me, wheter i would like to write bigger books. And here we are! My ideas for you are: -start small. Write articles or small books in the way you want to read them. And send them to publishing houses. - Then pray and hope. But to be honest even if you has already a name in the branche, like me, you will have no certainty that the article or book will be published. I have written a lot of articles and some books which ended in the waste paper bin. Shit happens. It it happens more often that when you have success. - Never make the mistake of "self publishing"! There are publishing houses who offers "self publishing". What means you have to pay for that they print the book. They make no attempt to sell your book, this is your job. And selling a book is a very hard job. I dont know how it is in the country frome where you are, but in Germany "self publishers" are seen as "losers". No real publishing house will touch anything of them. Self publishing is like burn yourself.

Sit-report of China vs Vietnam terrain: City coast tiles reworked with smaller waves now. I think it looks better. And so it looks from higher flight level. In the right lower corner you see one original tile from Green Hell 3.5

Small progress also at my other terrain project "BoB 2 for the 1960th" RAF Thorney Island, added a concrete runway RAF Odiham, new positions for parking planes. Looks better now and more realistic.

Yes. Its only in german language. Perhaps the publishing house will find an english publisher, as they did it with my Mi-24 book.

Lightning over RAF Martlesham Heath (Battle of Britain 2 of the 1960th terrain WIP) RAF Warmwell

I doubt, that it is possible to make a F-15 stealthy. The design of the air intakes is so, that you get a perfect look on the fans of the engine. The fans are perfect radar reflectors, which increase the size of the radar cross section dramatically. IIRC the F-15 had had a frontal radar cross section of 15 - 20 m², what is a lot!

Make a screenshot of your modfolder. Perhaps we can find out whats wrong.

Tigers over the border between China and Vietnam.

Sometimes is shooting at short distance not such a good idea.